Questionnaires

Health-Related Quality of Life Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents aged from 8 to 18 years

The KIDSCREEN instruments assess children’s and adolescents’ subjective health and well-being. They were developed as self-report measures applicable for healthy and
chronically ill children and adolescents aged from 8 to 18 years. As a result of their simultaneous development in 13 European countries, the KIDSCREEN instruments are truly cross-national HRQoL
measures.

KIDSCREEN-52

allows detailed profile information for ten HRQoL dimensions,

requires 15-20 minutes to be filled in.

KIDSCREEN-27

items derived from the 52-item version,

allows detailed profile information for five HRQoL dimensions,

requires 10-15 minutes to be filled in.

KIDSCREEN-10 Index

items derived from 27-item version,

global HRQoL score for monitoring and screening uses,

requires 5 minutes to be filled in.

The KIDSCREEN instruments are available in child and adolescent as well as parent / proxy versions and have been translated and adapted for use in several languages. A score can be calculated and
t-values and percentages will be available for each country stratified by age and gender.